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ECB deadline for Greece may be delayed, Germany says

Delaying a Thursday deadline for Greece to repay €5 billion worth of treasury bills to the European Central Bank is "part of ongoing discussions," Marianne Kothe, spokeswoman for the German finance ministry said in a press conference. Athens had hoped to get the €31.5bn bailout tranche by then.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.